Arabs paid Pak to make Islamic bomb: Report
Three Arab "parties'' paid Pakistan at least 1,000 million dollars for its nuclear project after former Pakistan premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto convinced them during 1972-74 that the project would produce an Islamic bomb, Egypt's scholar-editor Mohammad Hassenein Heikal has revealed in a recent article of Al Arabi.

Sharif comes under fire on US missile attacks
The Pakistan Government on Sunday came under mounting criticism from various quarters in the country for allegedly assisting the US to launch missile attacks on Afghanistan, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif termed the charges as "false and baseless".

Peace returning to J&K: Advani
Union Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani has claimed that the government's initiatives in Jammu and Kashmir to contain militancy had started paying dividends and the state was returning to normalcy.

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